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URL Media, a network of community publishers that serve BIPOC audiences, receives a three-year, $5M Knight Foundation grant as it works to expand partnerships (URL Media)
https://url-media.com/url-media-secures-5-million-knight-foundation-grant/

URL Media Secures $5 Million Knight Foundation Grant to Build Unprecedented Sustainable Infrastructure for Community Media
Three-Year Grant Fuels Critical Infrastructure and Network Growth from 37 to 100 Publisher Partners Plus 250 Creators and Trusted Messengers to Reach 50 Million People in all 50 States by 2028.

Top Heritage Foundation staffer departs after Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes controversy (Emily Brooks/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5586731-heritage-foundation-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-controversy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p120#a251103p120

OpenAI's nonprofit foundation announces it's awarding $40.5M in grants this year to 208 nonprofits across the US; the nonprofit donated only $7.5M in 2024 (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

With the currently released things about Bill Gates in the Epstein files (he had sex with the women and girls Epstein provided and asked Epstein for antibiotics to secretly give to his then-wife to treat the STI he gave her) how are we feeling about the Gates Foundation funding ... anything? Why should that creep (through his foundation) get to use that kind of power to shape what scientists and NGOs can do?
(Nobody should have that power, most foundations are politically a net negativ…

From The Maple
Carney's Job Cuts Undermine Canada's Position Against Trump
Austerity undermines the foundation for a fairer economy that is less dependent on the US
https://www.readthemaple.com/carneys-job-cuts-undermine-canadas-po…

Carney’s Job Cuts Undermine Canada’s Position Against Trump
Austerity undermines the foundation for a fairer economy that is less dependent on the United States.

Heritage Foundation in revolt over Tucker Carlson defense after controversial Nick Fuentes interview: 'Footsie with literal Nazis' (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/us-news/heritage-foundation-in-revolt-over-tucker-carlson-defense-after-controversial-nick-fuentes-interview-footsie-with-literal-nazis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p137#a251103p137

heh “how to drink” using the word “tensegrity” in their tasting notes
(for an old fashioned made with vodka instead of whiskey; he complains that the flavours of the bitters are floating in mid air without the foundation of the whisky when “tensegrity” appears on screen)

Setting a new foundation for the offense in latest 2-round Raiders mock draft https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/31/setting-a-new-foundation-for-the-offense-in-latest-2-round-raiders-mock-draft/

🤯 stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple
#ai #llm

stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple
Foundation models and self-supervised learning (SSL) have become central to modern AI, yet research in this area remains hindered by complex codebases, redundant re-implementations, and the heavy engineering burden of scaling experiments. We present stable-pretraining, a modular, extensible, and performance-optimized library built on top of PyTorch, Lightning, Hugging Face, and TorchMetrics. Unlike prior toolkits focused narrowly on reproducing state-of-the-art results, stable-pretraining is de…

WTF with a burning marshmallow!!!
Here's a pair of stupid Cheeto appointed "judges" who wrote:
“The historical record makes unmistakably plain that open carry is part of this Nation’s history and tradition,”
These judges have absolutely no foundation for that statement.
The do not seem to comprehen that California was until 1822 part of Spain and until 1846 was a part of Mexico. Our traditions and legal history are quite different than that of the easte…

California's open carry ban unconstitutional, appeals court rules
Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee, said in the 2-1 decision that the state law could not stand under the Supreme Court’s 2022 landmark gun rights ruling.

#ThankYouTuesday
― Alice Sowerby, Ed Maste, Isaac Freund, Mark Phillips and others at the FreeBSD Foundation
― Baptiste Daroussin
― Colin Percival
― Dave Cottlehuber
― Gordon Tetlow
― Warner Losh
@…

Super Bowl 49 broke the Seahawks. They’re back because they recaptured the magic that team lost https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7010144/2026/02/02/super-bowl-60-seahawks-patriots-russell-wilson-malcolm-butler/

Foundation
Foundation and Eyeliner
Serum Foundation
#TrivialBooksOrPlays
#HashtagGames

Groyper War Consumes the Biggest Right-Wing Think Tank (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/groyper-war-consumes-heritage-foundation-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-ben-shapiro-kevin-roberts
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p131#a251103p131

The secure messaging app Signal remains the go-to tools for staying secure while conversing with sources, colleagues, friends, and family.
https://bsky.app/profile/freedom.press/post/3mdsj3olbd52y

Freedom of the Press Foundation (@freedom.press)
The secure messaging app Signal remains one of our go-to tools for staying secure while conversing with sources, colleagues, friends, and family. Find out why we love it in our digital security newsletter. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/for-sharing-secrets-signal-is-key/

OpenAI und Gates Foundation: KI für den afrikanischen Gesundheitssektor
OpenAI und die Stiftung von Bill Gates wollen 50 Millionen US-Dollar investieren, um die medizinische Versorgung in Afrika mittels KI zu verbessern.

RIP to the #Heritage #Foundation, which functionally died this week,
as its most prominent staffers made a beeline for the exit.
The Suspect: President Trump and his posse of online shitposters.
The weapon: Antisemitism.
The room: Phoenix Convention Center.
Having offered up their not-i…

Heritage Foundation killed by MAGA
Antisemitism in the GOP? The devil you say!

Omstreden voedselhulporganisatie Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) stopt ermee | VRT NWS: nieuws
#Gaza #Israel #VN

Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/phys…

A peek inside Physical Intelligence, the startup building Silicon Valley's buzziest robot brains | TechCrunch
If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesn’t show it. He’s working with people who've been working on this problem for decades and who believe the timing is finally right, which is all he needs to know.

Wikimedia Foundation appoints Bernadette Meehan as Chief Executive Officer
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/12/09/wikimedia-foundation-appoints-bernadette-meehan-as-chief-executive-officer/

Wikimedia Foundation appoints Bernadette Meehan as Chief Executive Officer – Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation today announced the appointment of Bernadette Meehan as Chief Executive Officer.

Las Vegas Raiders and NFL Foundation – LISC Grassroots Field Grant Program awards $170,000 to Boys

The Pope's relationship to God, in Catholic teaching, is as God's chief representative on Earth, the Vicar of Christ, acting as the visible head and spiritual successor to St. Peter, the foundation of the Church.
The only conclusion for Catholics using AI is that God Hates AI.

Have to time-shift the match until much later tonight. Might be a blessing.
I hope for our luck to turn, our players to return to form, and that we find firm footing to use as the foundation for the rest of the season.
#LFC

It's kinda weird how the Linux Foundation has accepted to become the dumping ground for tech/infrastructure that fall out of some tech hype. First they picked up a lot of Blockchain stuff, now they do AI infra.

This just made me laugh
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-foundation-fails-to-pass-a-budget
Partly because I have been making friends with the local Corvid population here and now when I walk the dog past the spot where I feed them they flock to me and gape…

In the comparison of foundation models costs are important, especially for companies that want a good businesscase for their AI usage. Kimi K2 Thinking looks like a winner if you look at the price vs performance ratio.
https://artificialanalysis.ai/

The board of the Wikimedia Foundation has selected Bernadette Meehan to replace Maryana Iskander as CEO of the foundation starting 20 January 2026. Meehan is a career diplomat of the United States and most recently served as the ambassador to Chile. Iskander announced back in May that she would be stepping down.

Wikimedia Foundation appoints Bernadette Meehan as Chief Executive Officer – Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation today announced the appointment of Bernadette Meehan as Chief Executive Officer.

🍋‍🟩 ‘Garden of Eden’: the Spanish farm growing citrus you’ve never heard of
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/16/garden-of-eden-the-spanish-farm-growing-citrus-youve-never-heard-of

‘Garden of Eden’: the Spanish farm growing citrus you’ve never heard of
Todolí foundation produces varieties from Buddha’s hands to sudachi and hopes to help citrus survive climate change

"Let’s start with the Injustice Foundation, which has given more than £380,000 to the Free Speech Union in recent years..."
Well, at least the Injustice Foundation are honest about what they stand for.
Who funds the Free Speech Union? - by Peter Geoghegan
https://de…

Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Free Speech Union went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #PacificNotions
.foundation & Henrik Meierkord:
🎵 Queens
#foundation #HenrikMeierkord
https://le-mont-analogue.bandcamp.com/album/kings-queens
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6iDfAS4fe0RJYA6CWTyzvq
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

The Heritage Foundation Shows How MAGA Will Die (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-heritage-foundation-shows-how
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p16#a251230p16

You no longer need to be a multimillionaire to own a Picasso
– for 100 Euros, anyone in the world has the chance to walk away with a painting by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
The French charity
"Alzheimer’s Research Foundation" announced recently it was raffling Picasso’s 1941 portrait,
"Tête de femme",
💥which is worth more than one million Euros,
- to a single winner.
Proceeds from the tickets will hel…

Ontology is shaping up to be the buzzword of 2026 because they are offering what #LLMs are lacking: formal grounding
LLMs offer creativity but need logical grounding. Ontologies provide this formal structure, anchoring meaning and unifying diverse data sources into a single semantic layer. They are essential for achieving precision and are one of the most reliable defense mechanisms against

From David Suzuki
The David Suzuki Foundation has been informed of several fake news stories, ads and videos circulating online that falsely claim to be endorsed by David Suzuki or the David Suzuki Foundation.
With the rise in AI-generated misinformation, it is increasingly difficult to determine if the content you see online is real or not.
These fake ads often link to websites selling products, sharing disinformation or promoting financial scams.
🧵1/6

#Steady-#Klimacrew
Das #DKFZ entwickelt mit dem „Human Radiome Project“ ein KI-Foundation-Model, das Millionen radiologische

DKFZ entwickelt KI-Foundation-Model für die Radiologie
Forscher des DKFZ arbeiten am Human Radiome Project und entwickeln ein KI-Foundation-Model, das radiologische Diagnosen verbessern soll.

Teaching students simple #WebScraping was always quite rewarding. It opens up numerous relevant, real-world data sources that are the foundation for any further analysis. Things already got more complicated with dynamic content loading, but now bot-exclusion-mechanisms make it almost impossible in many cases. Is web scraping for the

LFS101
A kind soul on mindly.social pointed me to the Linux Foundation's free Intro to Linux course. I'm slogging through it, learning bits. I'm in the fifth module, and have just learned a bit that I can use I loaded gnome-tweaks, and it may have allowed me to ease a nuisance. I'm patient enough to work my way through this intro, and hopeful.
One nice feature for me is that the presenters are more fluent in English than some of the W3 creators whose modules I'…

How does Ukrainian culture survive war? One Austrian foundation has a long-term answer: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/how-does-ukrainian-culture-survive.html

9/ Porta Alpina - Beatrice Trussardi Foundation
https://beatricetrussardifoundation.com/ideas/9-porta-alpina/
'Like all good utopian visions, the “Porta Alpina” station began with a proclamation for transforming the way that Swiss passengers would travel. Its creator, the engineer Eduard Gruner, published an essay in 1947 that imagined how people in the year 2000 would travel the country by trains that took them deep into the belly of the earth, under the mountains, to a great underground station ...'

MOCLIP: A Foundation Model for Large-Scale Nanophotonic Inverse Design
S. Rodionov, A. Burguete-Lopez, M. Makarenko, Q. Wang, F. Getman, A. Fratalocchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18980 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18980 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18980
arXiv:2511.18980v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Foundation models (FM) are transforming artificial intelligence by enabling generalizable, data-efficient solutions across different domains for a broad range of applications. However, the lack of large and diverse datasets limits the development of FM in nanophotonics. This work presents MOCLIP (Metasurface Optics Contrastive Learning Pretrained), a nanophotonic foundation model that integrates metasurface geometry and spectra within a shared latent space. MOCLIP employs contrastive learning to align geometry and spectral representations using an experimentally acquired dataset with a sample density comparable to ImageNet-1K. The study demonstrates MOCLIP inverse design capabilities for high-throughput zero-shot prediction at a rate of 0.2 million samples per second, enabling the design of a full 4-inch wafer populated with high-density metasurfaces in minutes. It also shows generative latent-space optimization reaching 97 percent accuracy. Finally, we introduce an optical information storage concept that uses MOCLIP to achieve a density of 0.1 Gbit per square millimeter at the resolution limit, exceeding commercial optical media by a factor of six. These results position MOCLIP as a scalable and versatile platform for next-generation photonic design and data-driven applications.
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Thank you @… for reminding us that even on the day of her death Brigitte Bardot should not just be remembered as an actress but also as a very prominent racist.

Brigitte Bardot's 30 years of sympathy for the far right
Convicted five times for racist remarks, the actress – whose foundation announced her death on Sunday, December 28 – remained one of the only French celebrities to openly embrace far-right views.

Quite exciting talk:
EFF presents: Rewiring Democracy with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders in conversation with Cindy Cohn
3 December, online
https://www.eff.org/event/rewiring-democracy

Rewiring Democracy with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders in conversation with Cindy Cohn
City Lights, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and The MIT Press present Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders (in conversation with Cindy Cohn/EFF) discussing their new book Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship – Published by The MIT Press.When:Wednesday...

Whereas with our tiny not-for-profit, Small Technology Foundation, we set things up so we don’t have shares/ownership and we only receive a salary and pay all our taxes. Which is how it should be and would be perfectly fine if we taxed these motherfuckers their fair share also.
PS. I know I suck at advocating for ourselves but here’s your infrequent reminder that you can help us continue to exist, should you like to see that, by becoming a patron:

I think you want to watch this talk by Indy Johar at The Long Now Foundation tonight. Yes, you do.

The Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators...
...to advance their immoral agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
Original post: https://

Folks, do not doubt for one second whether your pushback against Trump and Trumpism matters. It matters a lot. It’s the foundation.
Do not for one second mistake shamelessness for invulnerability. Shamelessness is a con, and you are the target. Don’t fall for it.

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get "tuned" API access; Google is already a member (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikip

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that Microsoft, Meta, and Perplexity are paying to gain access to the nonprofit’s projects, allowing them to use Wikipedia for AI training.

Whatever the worst-case scenario, #Janessa #Goldbeck has probably imagined it.
In 2023 the US marine veteran consulted on a documentary that war-gamed a presidential candidate staging a military coup.
Last year she advised local leaders on the hypothetical of troops being deployed to their streets for immig…

Harjeet Singh of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation, said: “Cop30 will go down in history as the deadliest talkshow ever produced.”
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/cop-30-its-no-joke/

COP 30: it’s no joke
The usual joke about the United Nations Climate Change Conferences (COPs) is that each one is a ‘cop-out’.  Each time there is a failure to agree on ending fossil fuel production as the source…

Good point, "Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker said artificial intelligence agents embedded within operating systems are eroding the practical security guarantees of end-to-end encryption (E2EE)."
https://cyberinsider.com/signal-presid

Signal president warns AI agents are making encryption irrelevant
Signal president Meredith Whittaker said AI agents embedded within operating systems are eroding the practical security guarantees of E2EE.

Sommige van de ergste uitspraken van deze fascist hebben ze nog weggelaten in het verslag van de uitzending van gisteren.
Gardiner vindt de EU een dictatuur want er is niks democratisch aan ... moet hij nodig zeggen met wat er allemaal in de VS gebeurt ...
Het wordt hoog tijd dat we de VS zien voor wat ze nu zijn: onze tegenstander op economisch, cultureel, humanitair *en* geopolitiek gebied.

Trump-denktank pleit openlijk voor einde Europese Unie
"Ik zie geen enkel toekomstscenario waarin Europa beter af is mét het voortbestaan van de Europese Unie dan zonder", zegt Nile Gardiner, Europadirecteur van de Heritage Foundation.

I just donated to the GNOME foundation as a thanks for giving me a nice desktop. I usually give once a year to show appreciation for their work and to contribute to the continuing work on the DE. I think KDE did the right thing asking for donations, so if you are on GNOME and have the means - make a donation
https://donate.gnome.org/

Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/21/dutch-online-grocery-store-picnic-raises-430m/

Dutch online grocery store Picnic raises €430M
Dutch online grocery store Picnic has raised €430 million from existing investors and is ploughing much of the funding to grow its operations in Germany.Picnic's existing investors include German supermarket giant Edeka, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, Dutch investment firm Hoyberg and Amsterdam-headquartered investment firm NPM Capital.As well as bolstering its presence in Germany, where Picnic says it's the market leader, the funds will be used to expand into multiple unnamed m…

I donated to the Navajo Hopi Health Foundation
https://navajohopihealthfoundation.org
...provides comprehensive primary care, dental, behavioral health, and ancillary services through its hospital in Tuba City, Arizona as well as a Federally Qualified Health Center Mobile Health program.

Only $1.5mil?
#Python #Anthropic

Raiders GM John Spytek honors late daughter through National CMV Foundation and My Cause My Cleats https://www.raiders.com/news/john-spytek-raiders-general-manager-my-cause-my-cleats-national-cmv-foundation

Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is launching
"Encrypt It Already",
-- our push to get companies to offer stronger privacy protections to our data and communications
by implementing
end-to-end encryption.
If that name sounds a little familiar,
it’s because this is a spiritual successor to our 2019 campaign,
"Fix It Already",
-- a campaign where we pushed companies to fix longstanding issues.
"End-to-end…

Introducing Encrypt It Already
Today, we’re launching Encrypt It Already, our push to get companies to offer stronger privacy protections to our data and communications by implementing end-to-end encryption. If that name sounds a little familiar, it’s because this is a spiritual successor to our 2019 campaign, Fix It Already, a...

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get "tuned" API access; Google is already a member (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikip

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that Microsoft, Meta, and Perplexity are paying to gain access to the nonprofit’s projects, allowing them to use Wikipedia for AI training.

My Cause, My Cleats: Players step out in support of the V Foundation and other causes https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47194192/nfl-players-honor-v-foundation-custom-cleats

The Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators - to advance their agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
Original post: https://bsky.app/pro…

heise | Home Assistant: Interview über Erfolg, KI-Code und das nächste Feature
Franck Nijhof leitet die Home-Assistant-Entwicklung bei der Open Home Foundation. Im Interview erzählt er, welche Neuerungen Nutzer 2025 noch erwarten.

Heritage Foundation staffers decamp for Pence-founded think tank in latest exodus (Emily Brooks/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/5660157-heritage-foundation-staffers-pence-think-tank/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p92#a251222p92

Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-esta…

Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Exclusive: Resignations Continue at Heritage Foundation amid Frustrations with Leadership (Audrey Fahlberg/National Review)
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusive-more-staffing-resignations-at-heritage-foundation-amid-continued-frustrations-with-organizations-leadership/amp/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p40#a251222p40

The painter Henri Rousseau
(1844–1910)
famously never left France;
He concocted his fantastical jungles from visits to the botanical gardens in Paris,
images in books and taxidermized specimens in natural history museums,
and a teeming visual imagination.
The results are on view in a mesmerizing exhibition,
“Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets,”
at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia until Feb. 22.
These works haven’t been assembled …

The Barnes Foundation
A landmark exhibition of paintings by the self-taught artist Henri Rousseau debuts at the Barnes Foundation in fall 2025.

Everything that #Trump has devolved into is because he's had zero repercussions for his actions.
...because #Republicans own the House of Representatives which America voted for.
VOTE in the 2026 midterm

Framasoft are one of the sadly very few non-bullshit orgs (they’re like us, Small Technology Foundation, not Mozilla) working for a better future for technology and society.
They’re raising funds at the moment.
Please support them if you can.
Thank you!
💕 https://framapiaf.org/@Framasoft/11556…

Framasoft (@Framasoft@framapiaf.org)
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US-based AI startup Arcee releases Trinity Large, a 400B-parameter open-weight model that it says compares to Meta's Llama 4 Maverick 400B on some benchmarks (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/tiny

Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta's Llama | TechCrunch
30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a U.S. company.

Advancing American Freedom Hires Former Heritage Foundation Legal, Economic and Data Directors (Julia Jensen/Advancing American Freedom)
https://advancingamericanfreedom.com/advancing-american-freedom-hires-former-heritage-foundation-legal-economic-and-data-directors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p93#a251222p93

Anonymous Content, the production company whose lead investor is Emerson Collective, names Ford Foundation ex-president Darren Walker as president and CEO (Robin Pogrebin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/arts/design/darren-walker-anonymou…

For His Next Act, Darren Walker Is Heading to Hollywood
Anonymous Content, a production company whose top investor is Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective, has named Darren Walker as president and chief executive.

Good point, "Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker said artificial intelligence agents embedded within operating systems are eroding the practical security guarantees of end-to-end encryption (E2EE)."
https://cyberinsider.com/signal-presid

The Heritage Foundation Wants to Send American Women Back Half a Century (Jessica Grose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion/heritage-foundation-women.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p55#a260121p55

A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Congress has released bills that fund the National Science Foundation and NASA.
Both of those look relatively flat.
NASA has a small, less than 1%, decrease.
The National Science Foundation has a decrease of about 3%, all in the education part of NSF, the science portion being flat.
The Agricultural Research Service has a small increase.
The Department of Energy Office of Science has a small increase.
The National Institutes of Standards and Technology actu…

One Year Into Trump’s Term, Where Does Science Funding Stand?
The CEO of AAAS is cautiously optimistic about federal funding for science, even as uncertainty makes research challenging.

My Resignation From The Heritage Foundation (Josh Blackman/Reason)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/12/21/my-resignation-from-the-heritage-foundation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251221/p68#a251221p68

Dr. Gladys West,
the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology,
has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95.
Born into poverty on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, West grew up in a segregated South where opportunity was scarce.
Through determination and extraordinary academic talent,
she graduated first in her high school class and earned a scholarship to Virginia State College …

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

A look at Model Context Protocol and how it went from a passion project made by Anthropic employees to an industry standard shared through the Linux Foundation (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key
Anthropic is donating MCP to the Linux Foundation, to be governed under the Agentic AI Foundation, with other members including OpenAI, Google, and Block.

Heritage Foundation killed by MAGA (Liz Dye/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/heritage-foundation-antisemitism-kevin-roberts
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p25#a251224p25

Robert George Resigns From the Heritage Foundation (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/robert-george-resigns-heritage-foundation-board-kevin-roberts-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-ce0409fa?st=kzBEFr
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p122#a251119p122

The Heritage Foundation,
an influential rightwing thinktank currently mired in controversy over its president’s apparent apology for extremism,
has appointed as a director the founder of a secretive all-male network of Christian nationalist fraternal lodges.
Scott Yenor, who was appointed as Heritage’s new director of the
"B Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies"
has recently offered ultra-conservative opinions on
women, marriage and LGBTQ ri…

As explicit right-wing antisemitism continues its rise to dominate mainstream conservative institutions,
the brief period where the Trump administration even pretends to care about "fighting antisemitism" is snapping shut
in favor of stepping up the xenophobic racism even further.
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Rats Flee Floating Ship
You might have heard the story break that the Heritage Foundation, America's leading right wing "think tank", has just been hit with a rush ...

The Heritage Foundation Blows Up (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/heritage-foundation-staff-exodus-mike-pence-kevin-roberts-c4ba0b7c
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p127#a251222p127

Two More Heritage Foundation Trustees Resign Over Support for Tucker Carlson (David A. Fahrenthold/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/heritage-foundation-trustees-resign-tucker-carlson.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p22#a251217p22

The Gates Foundation and OpenAI plan to invest $50M to use AI to ease the impact of chronic staff shortages in 1,000 primary health clinics in Africa by 2028 (Financial Times)

Donald Trump followed through on his threats to sue the BBC over its editing of his remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, for a documentary.
The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“If any ordinary person filed as many frivolous multibillion-dollar lawsuits as Donald Trump, they’d be sanctioned and placed on a restricted filers list.
By my count, Trump has demanded at least $65 billion in damages from media outlets i…

Trump’s BBC lawsuit is nonsense, like his others
His frivolous damages theory concedes that Trump views the presidency as a for-profit venture

DOJ's Clinton Foundation probe marred by 'conflicts of interest,' obstruction by FBI's Andrew McCabe: whistleblowers (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/15/us-news/dojs-clinton-foundation-probe-marred-by-conflicts-of-interest-obstruction-by-fbis-andrew-mccabe-whistleblowers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p108#a251215p108

Photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested in November while documenting a protest in Miami, Florida.
A coalition of 23 press organizations spoke out against the charges
— and this week the prosecutor agreed❗️
The following statement can be attributed to Adam Rose, deputy director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“I hope law enforcement officers take this to heart: Swearing an oath to protect the community means protecting everyone — including pre…

Florida prosecutor agrees: Photography is not a crime
A coalition of 23 press organizations spoke out against the charges — the prosecutor agreed

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda (Josh Richman/Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/beware-government-using-image-manipulation-propaganda
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p138#a260127p138

AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence claims vision-language-action models learn to align human videos and robot data as pre-training is scaled up (Physical Intelligence)
https://www.physicalintelligence.company/research/human_to_robot

Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models
Exploring how transfer from human videos to robotic tasks emerges in robotic foundation models as they scale.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation boasts of raising awareness about suicide,
but it uses deceptive numbers to promote its efforts
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/gun-industry-suicide-pr…

The Gun Industry’s Suicide Prevention Effort Isn’t What They Say It Is
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a top gun industry trade group, has been using deceptive numbers to tout its suicide awareness efforts.

EXCLUSIVE: 'I Made A Mistake': Heritage Foundation President Apologizes to Staff for Video Refusal to Cancel Tucker Carlson and Throws Shade at Former Chief of Staff (Eliana Johnson/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/politics/i-made-a-mistake-heritage-foundation-president-apologizes-to-staff-for-video-refusal-to-cancel-tucker-carlson-and-throws-shade-at-former-chief-of-staff/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p126#a251105p126